English dictionary: words starting with apr

abbreviation

Annual or annualized percentage rate (used typically of interest on loans or credit).

noun

Abbreviation for annual percentage rate: the rate at which someone who borrows money is charged, calculated over a period of twelve months

Usage examples:

The interest rate on my credit card is currently 25.5 percent apr.

noun

Inability to perform particular purposive actions, as a result of brain damage.

Usage examples:

Dressing apraxia

prefix

Coming after in time, typically specifying a period following an activity.

Usage examples:

Après-shopping

noun

Social activities that take place in the evening at hotels and restaurants in places where people go to ski

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Après-ski entertainment

noun

A juicy, soft fruit of an orange-yellow colour resembling a small peach.

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Apricot jam

adjective

Downy yellow to rosy-colored fruit resembling a small peach

noun

A juicy, soft fruit of an orange-yellow colour resembling a small peach.

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Apricot jam

noun

The fourth month of the year, in the northern hemisphere usually considered the second month of spring.

Usage examples:

The prison was to close in april

noun

A protective garment worn over the front of one's clothes and tied at the back.

Usage examples:

A striped butcher's apron

noun

A protective garment worn over the front of one's clothes and tied at the back.

Usage examples:

A striped butcher's apron

preposition

With reference to; concerning.

Usage examples:

She remarked apropos of the initiative, ‘it's not going to stop the abuse’

adjective

Very appropriate to a particular situation.

Usage examples:

The composer's reference to child's play is apropos

adverb

Used to introduce something that is related to or connected with something that has just been said

Usage examples:

Apropos of i had an email from sally yesterday - apropos of which, did you send her that article?, …

collocation

Used to introduce something that is related to or connected with something that has just been said

Usage examples:

I had an email from sally yesterday – apropos of which, did you send her that article?, apropos of …